Annual report for the year 1902 (fifth year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Annual report. 1902

London : printed by McCorquodale & Co., 1903.

365 pages, 2 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps (color) ; 25 cm + 9 maps in pocket inside back cover (50 x 69 cm folded to 23 x 13 cm)

Consists of a list of managers, report of the Board (R.M. Hensley, T. Duncombe Mann), report of the General Purposes Committee (R. Strong), report of the Finance Committee (Augustus C. Scovell), report of the Works Committee (J.T. Helby), report of the Contract Committee (J. Thornley), report of the Children's Committee (W. Crooks), report for the training ship, "Exmouth" (C.P. Marriott, E. Keen), report of the Asylums Committee (Herbert H. Swift), reports of the Commissioners in Lunacy (Sidney Coupland, C.S. Bagot, E. Marriott Cooke, G. Harold Urmson, F. Needham, Hardinghe F. Gifford), report of the Ambulance Committee (Doneraile), report of the Hospitals Committee (J.R.Hill), report of the Statistical Committee (V.B. Kennett-Barrington)

reports of the superintendents of the Eastern Hospital, Homerton (E.W. Goodall), the North-Eastern Hospital, South Tottenham (H. E. Cuff), the North-Western Hospital, Haverstock Hill (Wm. Gayton), The Western Hospital, Fulham (R.M. Bruce), the South-Western Hospital, Stockwell (F. Foord Caiger), the Fountain Hospital, Tooting (C.E. Matthews), the Grove Hospital, Tooting (J.E. Beggs), the South Eastern Hospital, New Cross (F.M. Turner), the Park Hospital, Hither Green (R.A. Birdwood), the Brook Hospital, Shooter's Hill (John MacCombie), the Northern Hospital, Winchmore Hill (F.N. Hume), fever and smallpox statistics, the report of the river ambulance service (W. McC. Wanklyn), report of the Hospital Ships, Dartford (T.F.Ricketts), report of Gore Farm Hospitals, Darenth (Frederic Thomson)

reports of the medical superintendents of Leavesden Asylum, King's Langley (Frank Ashby Elkins), Caterham Asylum (P.E. Campbell), Darenth Asylum, near Dartford (F.R.P. Taylor), Rochester House Asylum, Ealing (G.E. Shuttleworth, M. Hargreaves), statistical tables for the asylums, medical supplement to the report of the statistical committee (edited by F.M. Turner, J.E. Beggs) including statistics about post-scarletinal diphtheria, the use of antitoxin serum treatment, tracheotomies, laparotomies, intubation and short articles, also 9 folded maps of London showing the locations of the hospitals etc. and the sanitary districts and incidence of scarlet fever (one map for every quarter of the year), diphtheria (one map for each half of the year), typhus fever & smallpox and enteric fever during 1901

With this report the format reverts to that of a single volume

Includes bibliographic references and index

Partial contents: Nitrogen exchange in diphtheria and scarlet fever / H.W.L. Barlow and G.M. Crawford.-- A successful case of laparotomy for perforation in enteric fever / J. Wilkins.-- Symmetrical gangrene of the legs occurring during an attack of scarlet fever / G.L. Thompson.-- A case of enteric fever accompanied by prolonged coma / E. Swainston.